In Sawgamet, a northwest, north-woods boomtown gone bust, the cold of winter breaks the glass of the schoolhouse thermometer and the river freezes so fast it can trap the drowning. In logging season, the men face danger in the cuts, but the dark mysteries lurking in the woods overshadow the loss of limbs and life.

Stephen, an Anglican priest, has brought his family home on the eve of his mother's death, thirty years after the mythic summer his grandfather returned in search of his beloved, long-dead wife. Just as his grandfather did, Stephen is forced to confront the losses of his own past.

Touch introduces you to a world of monsters and witches, singing dogs and golden caribou, wonder and tenderness and shocking violence, where the living and the dead part and meet again in the crippling beauty of winter and the surreal haze of summer.

Beautifully and hauntingly, Touch carries you into the heart of three generations of a pioneering family, who carved out a space in the wilderness just as surely as that wilderness carved its mark on their lives.